SUNDAY – DECEMBER 15, 2013
BOTTOM LINE:
Drove from Lakes Entrance to Leongatha for two nights
BACK STORY:
Today we slept in and had to race around to get out of our room by
10am. As we were checking out I told the
owner what a delightful surprise it was to have laundry equipment and even
detergent supplied. She smiled with a
puzzled look on her face and said, “we don’t supply laundry detergent, only
dishwasher soap!” So, rather than having
“springtime fresh” we have “lemon” smelling clothes! No worries…they’re clean!
We grabbed a great breakfast at a local café before heading down
the road.
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| Breakfast |
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| Beverage of choice, flat white! |
Our drive out of town included an overlook to the ocean inlet and
coastline. I find it very relaxing to
drive along areas and visit the little coastal communities. We have been told that the quietness that we
have experienced will end the day after Christmas when summer vacations
officially begin and the sleepy communities morph into wild, loud and crowded
tourist hubs.
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Barb & Bruce at Lakes Entrance inlet
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| Lakes Entrance Inlet |
One of the first towns we visited was called Sale. It had a botanical garden, which we
visited. We are definitely hitting
locations at the right time. We have followed the blooming season as we have
moved further south.
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Sale Botanical Garden
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| Purple Swamp Hen |
A sign that we have noticed on the road a few times has been an
arrow pointed in the direction of a chimney.
The best that we can figure is that when an old house falls down, the
chimney is saved and kept at the property site, which ultimately becomes a
historical point of interest.
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Chimneys of historical interest
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One of the historical coastal communities that we
stopped at was Point Albert. This
one in particular had some interesting historical documentation. One was about the 11,000km migration of the Godwit
bird between Alaska and Point Albert, Australia. The trip is made every year nonstop!
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Godwit
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| Migration of the Godwit bird |
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